Do you let sims with common ancestors that the game no longer considers related be romantic?

"ClarionOfJoy;c-17039999" wrote:

"JoAnne65;c-17039957" wrote:
Objecting to something is not the same thing as shaming someone off it, please don’t put words in my mouth. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion and will have their own arguments. It does make me sad when people in real life are told they can’t love each other for some reason, won’t deny it, but this topic is about pixel characters, nobody gets hurt ;)

I know it's just a game, but oftentimes, one's own philosophy and way of life will reflect in their gameplay. I think though that it is natural for some people to feel repulsed by a relationship that they see as taboo and they shouldn't have to deny that for fear of coming off as heartless or not with the times. I see with the alternate lifestyles that people who push for acceptance of it have worked hard to reverse public opinion of it. I think it's good to some extent because I hated that people would use their revulsion of it to give themselves an excuse to hurt or kill other people with that lifestyle. But now it's getting to be too much! People who find it repulsive are being shamed into silence and I don't think that's good either. There should be balance, where both sides can express themselves without shaming each other.

PS - I hope you don't think I'm mad at you or hating on you. I always "like" or "awesome" your posts. I just tend to be centrist though and like balancing out the direction of a thread (if I have the time and inclination). I actually don't have a problem with alternate lifestyles, but 2nd cousins procreating increases the chance of defective traits getting passed on. I'm an RN so I'm thinking of all the risks for that and I've seen some really sad situations at the hospital, so it's a matter of practicality and not denial of a romance.

Lol, don’t worry, as it happens I’d just wholeheartedly awesomed you in another topic right before opening this topic, this really isn’t personal for me (though alledgedly my parents’ granddads were cousins :mrgreen: ; I wouldn’t be surprised that happened quite often back in the day when partners had to be found in the same region or even village). Like I said I initially felt bad about the cousin thing myself and my only motivation was genetics (the looks of my sims). Then I learned more about it and that’s when my opinion changed (I’d honestly always thought cousins had a really high chance of mentally ill children and that’s simply not the case, but I’ve said enough about that subject in my other posts and it’s not Sims related really). And I should add I also liked the storyline that presented itself, because my sims’ family objected to the love affair as well, it became a forbidden affair, with a secret, out of wedlock baby (I did need a next heir with the mixed genetics after all) and they avoided each other for years. In the end they married though because I do need that happy end for my sims at all times :blush:

I guess I just erase the family link, if ever it was bound to happen, they are just pixellized dolls after all. :p

I suppose the Mare's Nest will jump on this post with what I will say next: :#
I'm not very shocked as in Sweden it is allowed to marry your cousins - even if it is a rare event... :pensive: Siblings are considered close family, of course, but half-siblings can get married if they ask a special authorization.

@sofie981 Norwegian? So you're not shocked either! :) But in France, for example, relations or marriage between cousins is considered incest. In the USA it is legal in most East coast states and a criminal offense in, for example, Texas! :confused:

Hi, Jilbg! Yes indeed born and bred under the northen lights ;) Well not to many generations back the families was enormous with 14-16 children and not that much moving about so there are plenty cousins that where hitch and had perfectly "normal" children. My friend have parents who are 1'cousins and he's as normal as any. My aunt and uncle where 2' cousins and have a daughter who is brillinat in every way, sadly my uncle died of cancer some years back and is sorly missed. I could not say eww to any real live human beings who's only fault was that they fell in love ;)

Edit: I'll forget my head one day! I wanted to say that i have read your story and love the new additions you do! Can hardly wait to find out what happens in the end with Gramps, the kids + Taiga and her great love Derek the wolf :D

The only reason I'd ever do that to my sims is for the sake of drama and jokes. But no, I probably wouldn't do it. I prefer to not have inbred sims. :)

Yes I would if I wanted to create drama >:)
But honestly with some of my longer legacy challenges, a large fraction of the population is somehow related to the family (at least through marriage), and I stopped caring lol

@sofie981 Thank you for reading my story! The next chapters are waiting to be written, the pics are already taken but I'm still busy with overhauling the last chapters in part one!

I was a little in love with one of my handsome cousins when I was around thirteen, but he was nineteen and as you can imagine, didn't really see me! :joy: I read a story the other day about two people falling madly in love, moving in together and having a child, then finding out they were siblings, having been adopted away as toddlers. It was a huge thing, lots of questions and sudden disgust. They separated, but kept in touch because of their child. Then, after getting some distance to their situation, they realized they still loved each other exactly as before and moved back together... I think it was a beautiful story, even though I'm not sure about my own reaction if being in the same situation... :/

I love Norway - it is one of the countries I always advertise a lot about! I live in the French Alps since a couple of years, and even though the nature is pretty awesome here, too, when I visited last summer, the magnificence of the nature still hit me like a punch between the eyes! I think you get what I mean... :D

The game's "genetics/inheritance":

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There could be more!

Romantic interactions are differentiated from Try for baby; the latter do to my knowledge not happen autonomously in unmodded game, although townies can be given offspring by Story Progression.

There are lots of interesting writings on anthropology and kinship as well as genetics; I have read Gayle S. Rubin and Claude Lévi-Strauss for instance. :smile: